Věnceslav Černý
Czech artist
Died when: 71 years 79 days (854 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Venceslav Cerný (27 January 1865 in (part of Benátky nad Jizerou) - 15 April 1936 in Mladá Boleslav) was a Czech illustrator and painter.
First, he studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts, later the Academy in Vienna.Alternately lived in Prague, Mladá Boleslav and Železnice.
He was almost exclusively devoted to illustrating books (especially adventure books) and magazines (Svetozor, Zlatá Praha).A very high percentage of his works are related to historical battle themes and mediaeval civilisation in the form of drawings and large paintings.
He was a popular illustrator of many publishing houses in Prague (e.g. , , etc.), and illustrated many books, especially those by Lidia Charskaya, , Alois Jirásek, Karl May, Henryk Sienkiewicz.
In the years 1893-1909 he illustrated sixteen books of Jules Verne.
